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Balancing response and resilience in Europe

Increasing costs of disasters in Europe is unsustainable as funds fail to keep up with need as the climate crisis mounts. The EU civil protection mechanism is operating at its… Read more

NCSR+ Launches Strategy and Manual to Create a Local Resilience Capability

The National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] has launched its strategy and manual for societal resilience. The launch webinar is available for viewing online, where speakers discussed the need to… Read more

RAAC Concrete Crisis

In 2018, a roof collapse at a school in Kent highlighted the growing risk of collapse within schools built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) Concrete. In late 2018, the… Read more

Don’t reinvent the wheel, leverage existing systems: UK Community Foundations

In this article, Lord Hastings explores how Community Foundations can have a key role in the government’s aim to level up the UK. Building on the success of their vital… Read more

Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for ‘the next outbreak’

While COVID-19 ebbs — and many of the pandemic-era policies on surveillance data and funding wind down with it — the nation’s public health leaders warned senators on Thursday that… Read more